Italy's leading prima ballerina, Carla Fracci, dies at 84


  • World
  • Thursday, 27 May 2021

FILE PHOTO: Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi (R) and his wife Agense (C) meets former International classic dancer Carla Fracci at the end of the Verdi's Joan of Arc, opening of the 2015-16 opera season at Milan's La Scala opera house, December 7, 2015. REUTERS/Alessandro Garofalo/File Photo

ROME (Reuters) - Carla Fracci, one of the most famous ballerinas of the 20th century who emerged from humble origins in Italy to dazzle audiences in theatres around the world, has died, her family said on Thursday.

She was 84 and had been suffering from cancer.

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